In an era of climate grief — when we have words for “solastalgia” (the distress of environmental loss) but no rituals for it — A Grave for a Dolphin offers a template. It is not a guidebook. It is not a memoir. It is a lament that admits:

David Bowie explicitly cited the book as a major creative catalyst. The famous romantic, yearning lyric from his song "Heroes" ——is a direct reference to one of the book’s central stories. A Shared Love Story

And then, in a line that could end any great elegy: He walked back to the lighthouse, and the light turned, and the light turned, and the light turned.